Akan
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Akan is a major Central Tano language spoken primarily in Ghana and parts of Côte d’Ivoire, serving as a key lingua franca and cultural language for the Akan people.
All labels observed (2)
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Central Tano language
ⓘ
Niger–Congo language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Anyin language
ⓘ
Baoulé language ⓘ |
| countryWithLargeSpeakerPopulation | Ghana ⓘ |
| ethnicLanguageOf |
Akan people
ⓘ
surface form:
Akuapem people
Fante people ⓘ
surface form:
Ashanti people
Fante people ⓘ |
| glottocode | akan1250 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Akan
ⓘ
surface form:
Akan Kasa
Akan language ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Akuapem Twi
ⓘ
Asante Twi ⓘ Fante people ⓘ
surface form:
Fante
|
| hasFeature |
advanced tongue root vowel harmony
ⓘ
noun class system remnants ⓘ subject–verb–object word order ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| hasISO6391Code | ak ⓘ |
| hasISO6392Code | aka ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | aka ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative tendencies ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ |
| hasRegulatingBody | Bureau of Ghana Languages ⓘ |
| isMacrolanguageOf |
Fante language
ⓘ
Twi ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Central Tano ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Niger–Congo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Niger–Congo
|
| officialStatus | government-sponsored language in Ghana ⓘ |
| region |
Côte d'Ivoire
ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Côte d’Ivoire
southern Ghana ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Côte d'Ivoire
ⓘ
surface form:
Côte d’Ivoire
Ghana ⓘ West Africa ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Kwa language
ⓘ
Potou–Tano languages ⓘ
surface form:
Tano language
|
| usedAs | lingua franca ⓘ |
| usedBy | Akan people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral literature
ⓘ
proverbs and folklore ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Christian religious practice in Ghana
ⓘ
education in Ghana ⓘ literature in Ghana ⓘ mass media in Ghana ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Akan Kasa
subject surface form:
Winneba